Re: I want a sicilian worm!

The Dawnwich Horror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> You might have better luck if you google for caecilian.  If I understand 
> correctly, there are types of caecilians native to the US, so an import 
> ban wouldn't have a huge impact.  I'm not sure if the ones in the US are 
> pet material but at least that's a start.
> 
> I love other amphibians, but I never thought of keeping these guys.  You
> say that he was fun to keep in a tank?  It sounds intriguing.  I thought
> they just dug into the mud and stayed there.

boy do I feel silly- but you do get  hits for sicilian so I didn't
know....

it was a great critter, but if you get two, they sit in the bottom
tangled together.

I met some salamanders once with tiny, vestigial disgusting limbs and
eyespots, and big teeth that spent all their time burrowed in the mud.
 what were they......  I can't recall right now, but they were horrid.
 we'd find them with gashes on each other after shipping since they
bit whatever they could.  yuck.  they were big- about the length of my
forearm or longer, but the caecilian worms are much smaller- finger
width, about 6 inches long.  occasionally s/he would swim all over the
tank but generally was a bottom dweller.

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sedition....anyone who ignorantly or lightly, causes a baby to be fed
on
unsuitable milk, may be guilty of that child's death." ~ Dr. Cicely
Williams in
1939.
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